This site explores the complex area of death and dying in American culture. The site is replete with links to numerous topics...
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This site explores the complex area of death and dying in American culture. The site is replete with links to numerous topics and issues surrounding the concept of death. Also included are life calculation predictors for individuals visiting the site.

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This video was recorded at 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), Dublin 2012. Today,...
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This video was recorded at 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), Dublin 2012. Today, YouTube is the largest user-driven video content provider in the world; it has become a major platform for disseminating multimedia information. A major contribution to its success comes from the user-to-user social experience that differentiates it from traditional content broadcasters. This work examines the social network aspect of YouTube by measuring the full-scale YouTube subscription graph, comment graph, and video content corpus. We find YouTube to deviate significantly from network characteristics that mark traditional online social networks, such as homophily, reciprocative linking, and assortativity. However, comparing to reported characteristics of another content-driven online social network, Twitter, YouTube is remarkably similar. Examining the social and content facets of user popularity, we find a stronger correlation between a user's social popularity and his/her most popular content as opposed to typical content popularity. Finally, we demonstrate an application of our measurements for classifying YouTube Partners, who are selected users that share YouTube's advertisement revenue. Results are motivating despite the highly imbalanced nature of the classification problem.

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This is a free textbook offered by BookBoon.'Social Media is the buzz about town. Almost everyone with internet access is...
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This is a free textbook offered by BookBoon.'Social Media is the buzz about town. Almost everyone with internet access is using social media in some form or the other. It is changing the way individuals and organizations communicate or interact with others. However, despite its popularity, most people have a very limited understanding of the scope and utility of Social Media in its entirety.In this book, we will discover how the social media has transformed over the years, what benefits it brings to individuals and businesses and why social media management is important. We will also discuss some tools, which are useful to manage your social media activities.'

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PHOTOBANK is a selection of UNESCO's collection of photographs and slides made available online. The collection --covering a...
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PHOTOBANK is a selection of UNESCO's collection of photographs and slides made available online. The collection --covering a wide range of subjects related to the Organization's fields of competence: education, science, culture and communication-- was started in 1946 when UNESCO was founded and currently contains over 10,000 digitalized images. More will become available as the rest of the collection is digitalized and further developed. Searchable.

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This hand-out was designed for a sociology class to help develop a "firm understanding of the assumptions and expectations of the discipline." The handout describes: What is sociology?; Assumptions and conventions; and Typical assignments

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This video was recorded at 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), Dublin 2012. The...
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This video was recorded at 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), Dublin 2012. The International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) is a unique forum that brings together researchers from the disciplines of computer science, linguistics, communication, and the social sciences. The broad goal of ICWSM is to increase understanding of social media in all its incarnations. Submissions describing research that blends social science and computational approaches are especially encouraged. Though this conference is just in its sixth year, it has become one of the premier venues for social scientists and technologists to gather and discuss cutting-edge research in social media. This is largely due to a typical acceptance rate of 20% for full-length research papers published in our conference proceedings and support from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). For ICWSM-12, in addition to the usual program of contributed technical talks, posters and invited presentations, the main conference will include a selection of keynote talks from prominent social scientists and technologists. Detailed program can be found at the ICWSM 2012 website.

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A report on youth violence prepared by the Department of Health and Human Services under the direction of the Office of the Surgeon General, in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services.

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Critical thinking in my class refers to the ability to answer why and how questions such as why do people commit crimes and...
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Critical thinking in my class refers to the ability to answer why and how questions such as why do people commit crimes and why do people vote the way they do. Critical thinking also refers to the ability to develop organized and logical arguments and to test hypotheses using the scientific approach. In my class there are two papers that revolve around the analysis of quantitative data. On this site I have posted the assignments I have used in five semesters along with the data sets that are used in these assignments. These assignments could be used in a critical thinking class or any class that included a component that involved the analysis of quantitative data.

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